Path of Exile

This seems to be the FoTM for a lot of folk, Decent guide for leveling etc included :

Forum - Scion - ZiggyD's Etheral Knives Mana Shield Scion/Shadow Build Guide - Hardcore (Updated for 1.1) - Path of Exile

Steam Community :: Guide :: ZiggyD's Ethereal Knives Mana Shield Scion build guide - Nemesis/Hardcore


Note the link to an update for 1.1 that recommends starting as Shadow :Path of Exile: Ethereal Knives MoM Scion / Shadow 1.1 SotV Update! (Hardcore / Invasion Build) - YouTube

baa. raging spirit witch died like a chump to a 5 pack of devourers, out of a box, stunlocking. Even had vaal skels up...


need ideas for something fun.
that EK shadow/scion sounds neat... but also requires way too many skill gems that are not basic quests. would need like 3 level 30 chars to get them all via quest.

How does the Atziri stuff work? For instance I see the queen drops an axe and gaunts, is it super rare from her? I know she is like a spawned raid event from fragments or whatever.

Do corrupted areas always only drop corrupted skills?

actually, just redoing the raging spirit witch. got a melee splash trade for point blank, which I had.

Still trying to figure out exactly how raging spirit scales.

Added fire damage,
hatred, vs wrath.
minion damage. (gem)

Minion damage passives apply to base. but not auras, like wrath right?
Minion damage gem just adds with those passives right? so melee physical damage should be superior, and be a straight increase in their damage?
What about added fire damage, and hatred? do these get applied after minion damage nodes?


a level 10 hatred is 30% of phys to cold.
Wrath is 1-88 lit damage. anger is 29-49 fire.

Added fire damage is 29% at 10. Also has +%fire damage quality. does THIS effect the spirits fire damage?
Increased minion damage is 63% at 10.
melee physical damage is 39% MORE physical.

level 10 raging spirit is 70-104 phys base.

about 65% minion damage from passives at level 40 for those gems.

so, minion damages add, for 128% right?

so, 104->169 with passive minion damage. +51 added fire damage. 220 total.
104->237 with increased minion damage.
104->169 with passive >235 with melee physical damage.


but how do they combine?
added fire and hatred would apply after the MORE, from melee physical damage. but do they also apply after passive or increased minion support?

If hatreds 30% is applied to the 104, its only 30, which is less then the 40ish average of wrath or anger.


Is melee physical damage, melee splash, minion damage.
And haste/wrath auras, the way to go?

Might swap to scion for this.

RIP on the 2 week league. Was 55, opened a box on the docks. 3 packs of dogs, melted almost instantly. Shit is rough.

Is a searing bond build still viable? I really want to enjoy this game but I hate how much dps falls off in later difficulties for past builds I have used.

Forum - Development Manifesto - Rebalancing Internal Unique Item Rarities - Path of Exile


Interesting. Sortof indirectly addresses my complaint on builds all being based on end game uniques.

We want build-defining uniques to become more available than they previously were.

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Granted, it doesn't make players provide more reasonable and better guides... nor nerfs those must have uniques..
Alpha howl at level 65+ is probably still a "rare".

More is better, but doubling an incredibly small rate is still an incredibly small rate. I may give the patch a whirl once it's released to see if the difference is noticeable.

yeah.

i really wish skill gems were more freely available. There would be PLENTY of trading around Quality gems, and possibly even leveled ones.
Making people try and trade, or level alts to just make builds is kindof annoying. especially in races, etc.
Esp with gems everyone uses so don't really want to trade in the first place. Blood magic, life leech. etc.

Haven't played since December. Fired up a new RoA ranger(ziggyD) to derp around in Ambush. Sad to see they nerfed the 2h spectral throw Scion, it was my favorite for early/mid game.

Its pretty fun to do the new side areas and strongboxes, working up to do new Atziri slowly but surely.

So Krassus, how does this game compares to D3 in your opinion?

D3 is a much simpler game and imo is nicer to look at, but it has probably 1/5th of the depth that PoE has. They have copied PoE well but all in a much smaller scale and without any customization. D3's Rifts are like baby maps with a 2yr old toddler as the boss, you dont need to clear edges and watch pulls. You for sure don't need to think about bosses, they are all faceroll. The skills for me is the biggest difference, there is no customization at all and you cant do anything as near as fun as PoE's builds.

TLDR D3 = Simple game + Free loot, PoE = Depth, Much customization and replayability.

Cut throat leagues got some talk. Unsure if desynch is even remotely addressed.

Even vaulting around like a maniac on my demon hunter I didn't have remotely as bad of issues as I did on PoE walking around. It completely kills the game for me.

If they could fix that much and put in a several month cutthroat league I would play nothing else.

Until then its just not something I would even think of playing.

Tuco_sl said:

Is PoE centered around maps that require you to trade your drops for map-improving currency using a chat system?

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Thats one of the biggest problems imo when you are pushing at the higher levels.

Desynch is ass, flicker strike is so much fun but you cant use it

Krassus_sl said:

Thats one of the biggest problems imo when you are pushing at the higher levels.

Desynch is ass, flicker strike is so much fun but you cant use it

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Desync makes this game extremely quitable.

Has anyone here done Atziri? How much of a pita are the fragments and do they start dropping at a certain level?

I installed and started messing around with this while I play D3 also...holy hell am I overwhelmed. The skill tree is massive, I have no idea wtf I'm doing lol. I made a Marauder, just running around bashing stuff filling my inventory in .5 seconds with no town portals. Murked_Blunts, hook it up Krassus!